Several organizations across the country are taking part in saving Mother Earth.  Many have already started programs that help educate the public about the importance of recycling.    

Recycling containers can be found anywhere on Drury University's campus.  It's part of a community partnership that school leaders hope will encourage all students to get in the habit of recycling.

Recycling is a routine Sarah Davis of Drury hopes her fellow peers can easily follow.

"It's a really easy way to help the environment and to make sure your helping the world for tomorrow.  It's just one of the basic ways to get involved in this sort of stuff," said Davis.

Davis is leading the cause by informing and educating everyone on campus.  She helps post flyers and gives new students the facts about recycling.

"It's not so hard to encourage them to do it.  It's about making it easier for them to participate because I feel like as long as its easier for them to help they'll be a little bit more to help with it, but if its too difficult they are not sure where the recycle center is, you know its a little bit harder for them to get them enthusiastic," she said.

Drury is part the Central Street Recycling Coalition, a new group made up of local businesses that encourages people to dispose of their waste in greener ways.    

"Recycling is one simple thing that people can do to reduce their impact on the planet and to also reduce green house gases.  When you throw something into the garbage and into the landfill it decomposes and a gas called methane.  Methane is 23 percent more powerful green house gas than carbon dioxide," said Karyn Kaplan who promotes recycling.

Leaders in the effort to Go Green say recycling keeps things like that out of the landfill therefore creating a cleaner environment.

"We live in a world community and all of us need clean air, clean water and resources in order to survive and have a life on this planet.  Where we're at right now is that earth is very threaten in terms of being able to provide the things that we need to survive as a specious, as a human species," said Kaplan.

Drury recently opened its very own recycling center, which is located near campus.  The school encourages members of its coalition to use the facility by dropping off paper, plastic, metals and cardboard.

The National Recycling Coalition recently awarded Drury a grant that will provide more than 50 recycle bins that will be used to encourage recycling around campus.